]]>By: What is the proper way to keep Ubuntu Server 8.04 updated? - Just just easy answershttps://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-129558
Fri, 06 Sep 2013 07:23:22 +0000http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-129558[…] The aptitude front-end to APT has some nice features compared to apt-get, as outlined in this blog post. However, if you’ve already got a system that you’ve been managing with apt-get, you […]
]]>By: Gusnan's blog » apt-get or aptitude?https://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-117024
Tue, 09 Oct 2012 12:01:05 +0000http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-117024[...] forums and mailinglists, I often see the debate of apt-get or aptitude appear. I have found this post on another blog which is really interesting, and well worth linking from here. October 9, 2012 | [...]
]]>By: LOLing at my old PChttps://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-116207
Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:21:49 +0000http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-116207[...] http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/fdisk_partitioning.htmlhttp://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/ [...]
]]>By: Jameshttps://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-116062
Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:58:02 +0000http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-1160621. Why do "sort" and "aptitude" sort in a different order certain characters?

When will someone fix these annoying things in Linux instead of developing new useless desktop fantasies?

2. When I use:
aptitude search ~dfractal |head

I cannot see the whole descriptions
When will someone fix this annoying thing in bash?

3. When will someone join all the different apt tools in one well designed tool that has the best of all of them instead of so many useless desktop fantasies?

4. "aptitude show" shows some info and "apt-cache show" shows another info.
That is not elegant. Leave that for windoze.

]]>By: Jameshttps://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-116061
Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:26:43 +0000http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-116061And Ubuntu, Linux destroyer basterds, want to destroy aptitude and have only apt tools?
]]>By: Raphaël Hertzoghttps://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-115819
Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:26:58 +0000http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-115819Reducing the problem to apt-get vs aptitude is not exactly correct, there are more package managers than just those two. In particular graphical package manager that are probably more attractive for beginners.

And your aptitude praise falls short on my experience, I like some aspect of aptitude but for big upgrades its CLI tends to not work very well.

Yesterday I was messing around in the terminal and googeling for cool and useful commands. I had seen the command aptitude being mentioned a few times before in forum threads and such, but I had never tried to use it myself. However, yesterday I did tr...

]]>By: Daniel Jonssonhttps://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-115753
Sat, 14 May 2011 08:48:52 +0000http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-115753Great article!
I'm definitely going to use aptitude from now on.
]]>By: Tshepang Lekhonkhobehttps://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-115434
Wed, 16 Feb 2011 05:52:34 +0000http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-115434When you started listing things like apt-listbugs and deborphan, I thought you were going to show us how to do the same with aptitude. Also, the one thing apt-get beats aptitude is speed (search and show), and yes it noticeable on a Core 2 Duo system.
]]>By: Linux package management: use aptitude, if your distro has it »Autarchy of the Private Cavehttps://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-115371
Sun, 30 Jan 2011 13:43:39 +0000http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-115371[...] the inbox »Linux package management: use aptitude, if your distro has it19th August 2007Found Aptitude vs Apt-Get post. Worth reading – both the post and the comments – if you are looking for a Linux [...]
]]>By: Too Much Information » Blog Archive » Xen: Lenny dom0 & Lucid domU - Blogging instead of receiving that glazed-over look from my wife…https://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-111537
Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:05:00 +0000http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-111537[...] The first part is to install the Xen hypervisor and a Kernel with the Xen patches. Fortunately, it’s really easy with Debian. You should use aptitude to do so, if you aren’t already using aptitude instead of apt-get you might want to check out the article in parenthesis (http://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/). [...]
]]>By: jemaduxhttps://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-111096
Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:08:16 +0000http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-111096I think that you tell the differencies
thanks
]]>By: teohttps://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-111032
Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:27:18 +0000http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-111032Aaron, what a good reminder of the old days I went with the same rpm dependencies shits that had burnt so many off my night candles away ! Debian and Ubuntu are finally
the preferable choice agreed!

And most importantly, please continue to write good articles like this one !

]]>By: P.Rudrahttps://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-110857
Mon, 10 May 2010 12:35:07 +0000http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-110857Are you not doing injustice to opensuse-11.2/10.3? Yast does all these things. I am continually switching between debian-sarge/etch/lenny and opensuse-sled10/10.2/10.3/11.2 and
have found them equal in power.
]]>By: Aptitude vs Apt-get Comparison « andrewault.nethttps://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-110846
Tue, 04 May 2010 02:04:10 +0000http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-110846[...] pages I found helpful: http://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/ and http://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/your-debian-aptitude. share and [...]
]]>By: Antoniohttps://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-110729
Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:17:54 +0000http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-110729I don't know, but I like so much more apt.
]]>By: Evan R. Murphyhttps://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-110558
Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:31:56 +0000http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-110558Just the sort of comparison I was looking for to help me wrap my mind around all these *apt* tools. I will immediately give aptitude a shot. Thanks!

Trivial correction (or misunderstanding): didn't you mean "Learn" instead of "Lean" in the second-to-last sentence of your original post?

]]>By: just saulhttps://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-110465
Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:54:08 +0000http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-110465Hey thanks for telling me about this. I started using it and it's awesome! Very robust and easy to use.
]]>By: ingalexhttps://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-110395
Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:25:37 +0000http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-110395Good article! But i prefer to use apt.
Here I've inserted some sources.list for Ubuntu derivated and Debian.
Each sources.list contain more than 200 repository.
]]>By: Building Firefox (in progress) « Ehren's Bloghttps://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-110222
Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:27:29 +0000http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-110222[...] tipped me off). Unfortunately, this option has not been implemented in Aptitude which I prefer for various reasons (most recommend not mixing the two [...]
]]>By: manfrom3004https://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-110127
Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:52:25 +0000http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-110127This should help alot!!
I never knew about this before...

I had read somewhere that you shouldn't use both apt-get and aptitude, and since I had already started using apt-get, I stuck with it.

Now I'm gonna switch.

]]>By: Darkstrikerhttps://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-109954
Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:06:59 +0000http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-109954Funny how installing programs on Windows is so much simpler. Yet another reason not to switch. Windows 7 FTW!
]]>By: johnhttps://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-109888
Sun, 05 Apr 2009 04:57:34 +0000http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-109888In fact, Yast package management predates apt and urpmi was developed about the same time as apt. I never had to mess with dependency hell with rpm distros. That's because I used distros that had package management systems.

Though i disagree on one point...if you use aptitude to remove a package installed with apt-get, it will perfectly remove all dependencies.

When removing a package, aptitude checks if there will be some unused packages, not caring about the way there were installed...I'm pretty sure aptitude would remove an unused package, even if it had been installed manually, using a dpkg command.

Try it yourself if you need to be convinced of that...there's no problem at all with mixing apt-get and aptitude.

@ Aaron - Nice post. You will be either happy or sad or just amused to hear that this blog entry has led to a four page (and counting) Aptitude vs. apt-get thread on forums.debian.net

]]>By: links for 2007-08-30 : Greg Palmerhttps://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-67016
Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:42:30 +0000http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-67016[...] Aaron Toponce » Blog Archive » Aptitude vs Apt-Get (tags: linux tech software) [...]
]]>By: » Upgrade Ubuntu with apt-get for a smoother transition | Network Administrator | TechRepublic.comhttps://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-66913
Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:43:45 +0000http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-66913[...] libraries, and modules. While browsing several articles on Digg I came across this one: “Aptitude vs apt-get“. It looks like Aptitude should be the preferred tool given comments like, “Aptitude is [...]
]]>By: Paulo F. Sedrezhttps://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-65922
Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:46:47 +0000http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-65922I think the main feature present in aptitude and that I have not seen in apt-get is the hability to downgrade selected packages. It may take a while sometimes, but I can install an older package.
]]>By: ThomasShttps://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-65891
Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:35:39 +0000http://www.pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/#comment-65891I used apt-get quite some time and then read that "one should use aptitude". But I never really liked it, because I kept on forgetting how to search for packages the right way ("aptitude search ~dkeyword" was not intuitive enough for me).

When I read about wajig, I tried it and it was a delight! So if you are just busy trying out aptitude and have some minutes left, just give it a chance too!

Currently I use yum, trying to learn how to use Red Hat... I like Fedora but its packagesystem has not convinced me yet as much as Debians system did.